Sentence examples for lost aircraft from inspiring English sources

"We've lost aircraft in battle, but nothing like this".

My recollection is that the airport manager had initiated normal lost aircraft procedures.

The National Transportation Safety Board cited Mr. Smiley's case and four other accidents in a recent letter urging the F.A.A. to tighten its procedures for reporting lost aircraft and quickly getting radar data to the Air Force.

By commandeering and crashing four commercial jets in one day, the terrorists had hijacked the business models of not only the companies that lost aircraft -- American, a unit of AMR, and United, a unit of UAL -- but also of Continental and every other airline in the United States.

This improvement translates to an increase in the chances of finding lost aircraft and survivors, resulting in more saved lives.

But what is the likelihood that the white specks in the satellite photos are indeed traces of the lost aircraft?

THE United States Air Force is not in the habit of losing aircraft.

The air force will lose aircraft, the navy surface ships – though it may get an extra submarine to keep the technical expertise in place.

Appeals judges at the trade body, which is based in Geneva, concurred with the initial finding that loans extended to Airbus over the course of four decades did constitute unfair subsidies that had caused Boeing to lose aircraft sales.

But there is the rub: finding things to bomb is hard when NATO is under strong pressure to avoid either losing aircraft or killing civilians and all the obvious targets have been hit already.

The Japanese lost three aircraft carriers and 426 aircraft; Yamatos only significant contribution was mistakenly opening fire on returning Japanese aircraft.